Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pattern emerges; every aspect of his love for the excellent lady occasions pain. The tense pleasure of enjoying Lise crumbles into the grief of living with Esther. Lise, the lover necessarily shared, but temporarily the poet's alone, seems almost despised once she has been enjoyed...
...expression so often used as to seem, almost invariably, stale and uncommunicative to a modern audience. Berryman enthusiastically accepts these restrictions and puts them to work for himself. A single sonnet is particularly suited to the elaborate presentation of one feeling. In a sequence of sonnets a larger pattern of responses to a single intense emotion--invariably love--emerges...
...very first pitch of the second game sent Lou Brock spinning back from the plate; two pitches later Brock popped out to short. That set the pattern. Unable to dig in against Lonborg's low, fast stuff, one after another of the Cards went down-three, then six, nine, twelve. As the tension mounted, 24 Cardinals came to bat, and not one got a hit. At last, with two out in the eighth, St. Louis' Julian Javier looped a hanging slider into leftfield for a double. Lonborg threw his hands to his face. "It was utter agony...
...North Haven, Conn. Newman supervised each step of the process, had to draw a sloping line across the top of the inverted obelisk to show workmen exactly where to cut. Then the base was "flame cut"-i.e., burned with a cutting torch, in order to leave a grainy pattern of vertical lines...
...some of them could have been deceived. But their very number, and the fact that several of them interested themselves in the Serios phenomenon to the extent of attending and participating in many sessions make it unlikely that a flawless wholesale deception could have been affected without a pattern of collusion involving Serios, Eisenbud, and at least a few of their regular co-workers...